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Oh Ors- don't fret needlessly along with the other old women on list - fact of the matter is > if you ride you are a foolish person beyond reasoning on risking life and limb, period end of story throw in the ole towel and stay under your bed. Motrocycles are one of natures best ways of paying back past life karma in big installment hits and lots of small change too.
I've had about every failure mode possible in AMC tranny and as ya made it this far and now have nicer sounding functioning fully lubed gbox, just run it till it starts to mis behave - as they all eventually do any way no matter what. Easyiest assessment of state of sleeve bushes is open primary and see if ya can wiggle the clutch basket, if so, it'll run that way a long time with the alignment forgiving triplex chain, though might sling a belt off before end of the block. The most danergous thing is the factory installed lay shaft bearing is known to break apart and can lock up tranny and take ya down, but generally only shows up as kicker being dragged forward to strike your calf but still function enough to get home to open up. The most likely thing that suffered is the paper thin 1st gear bush just under outter cover, which can make shifts a bother or lets 1st pop out of gear when going slowing and momentum and engine drag match, usually on a easy lean over to enter drive way or ease a slow turn coasting under 25 mph- ya can suddenly lose engine drag, which on pavement is non issue unless rear hit a rut just then - can take ya down, or about half that speed on THE Gravel - took me down on a edge berm that fractured my congenital fused lowest vertebrae L5/S1, that crippled me like Hunchback for 7 mo but regrew better than new. So I came out ahead of the karma game, my pelvis protected a brand new b/g paint job and I can now bend to touch toes and back don't bother to stand in lines anymore and pops on its own by a twist or lean back ahhhh....
I've had about every failure mode possible in AMC tranny and as ya made it this far and now have nicer sounding functioning fully lubed gbox, just run it till it starts to mis behave - as they all eventually do any way no matter what. Easyiest assessment of state of sleeve bushes is open primary and see if ya can wiggle the clutch basket, if so, it'll run that way a long time with the alignment forgiving triplex chain, though might sling a belt off before end of the block. The most danergous thing is the factory installed lay shaft bearing is known to break apart and can lock up tranny and take ya down, but generally only shows up as kicker being dragged forward to strike your calf but still function enough to get home to open up. The most likely thing that suffered is the paper thin 1st gear bush just under outter cover, which can make shifts a bother or lets 1st pop out of gear when going slowing and momentum and engine drag match, usually on a easy lean over to enter drive way or ease a slow turn coasting under 25 mph- ya can suddenly lose engine drag, which on pavement is non issue unless rear hit a rut just then - can take ya down, or about half that speed on THE Gravel - took me down on a edge berm that fractured my congenital fused lowest vertebrae L5/S1, that crippled me like Hunchback for 7 mo but regrew better than new. So I came out ahead of the karma game, my pelvis protected a brand new b/g paint job and I can now bend to touch toes and back don't bother to stand in lines anymore and pops on its own by a twist or lean back ahhhh....
When you change it in a few weeks , use a white ice cream thingo , to drain into .
